Bill Text: NY S03232 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that the board of elections will mail special ballots to victims of domestic violence with sufficient time to cast such ballot prior to the close of polls.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-08 - signed chap.150 [S03232 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03232-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3232--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Elections  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to mailing special ballots
          for victims of domestic violence
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 11-306 of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  163  of  the  laws  of 2010, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. A voter may deliver to the board of  elections,  in  person  or  by
     5  mail,  at  any  time during the period in which absentee ballot applica-
     6  tions may be delivered, a signed written statement swearing  or  affirm-
     7  ing:
     8    (a) that he or she is the victim of domestic violence;
     9    (b)  that  he  or  she  has  left his or her residence because of such
    10  violence; and
    11    (c) that because of the  threat  of  physical  or  emotional  harm  to
    12  himself  or  herself or to family or household members, he or she wishes
    13  to cast a special ballot  in  the  next  election.  The  statement  must
    14  include  the  voter's  address of registration.   The board of elections
    15  shall permit such a voter to cast a special ballot at an office of  such
    16  board  of  elections [not earlier than one week before the election and]
    17  not later than the close of the polls on election day, or by mail within
    18  the same time and in the same manner in which absentee  ballots  may  be
    19  cast,  provided  however  that  the distribution of such ballots to such
    20  voters shall be timed to afford such voters sufficient time to cast such
    21  ballots prior to the close of the polls on election  day.  Such  ballots
    22  shall  be  retained  at  the  board  of elections and cast and canvassed
    23  pursuant to the provisions of section 9-209 of this chapter.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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